[Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

[Mark Goodge]

On 12/02/2016 17:18, Colin Smale wrote:
> Several attempts have been made to "correct" the tagging from city to
> village/town... each time it was changed back to city...

This, I think, illustrates why we really could do with a "legal_status" 
tag or similar for populated places. People, particularly those living 
in small (by population size) cities (in the legal sense) tend to be 
very protective of their city status, and dislike any attempt to 
override it. And saying that it's a global OSM policy isn't going to 
persuade them. Their argument (and to be fair, it's a very good 
argument) is that for a UK location, UK law takes precedence over the 
policy of a self-appointed voluntary group (which, ultimately, is all 
that OSM is). It's an argument that you won't win, short of banning 
people who disagree.

The only way to reconcile this, in the long run, is to have two separate 
tags for populated places, one describing the size according to global 
OSM guidelines, and one describing the legal status according to local law.

Mark
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